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Just another John Mark productionFri, 26 Jun 2015 22:31:59 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3ManageIQ Botvinnik is Here – Control All the Thingshttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/06/manageiq-botvinnik-control-all-the-things/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/06/manageiq-botvinnik-control-all-the-things/#commentsFri, 12 Jun 2015 14:50:17 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/06/manageiq-botvinnik-control-all-the-things/We're very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. For the "B" release, we selected Mikhail Botvinnik, a Soviet chess champion from the 1950's. The "C" release cycle is named after Jose Raul Capablanca, a Cuban world chess champion from 1921-1927.

Cloud management is very quickly morphing into systems management, to the point where the difference between the two is increasingly indistinguishable. Everyone has a cloud, somewhere. Everyone has a virtualization platform. ManageIQ has had management capabilities for popular platforms of both for some time.

What's new in the Botvinnik release, which marks the beginning of ManageIQ's evolution from "Your gateway to the open cloud" to "Control all the things," brings several important new features, including:

More and better integration with cloud orchestration frameworks, including CloudFormations and OpenStack Heat.

One of the key differentiators for ManageIQ is that it all starts with a comprehensive asset inventory and the relationships between them. Orchestration, automation, and the policy engine are built on that inventory base. First, know what is there, and then decide how to automate it. Other cloud management tools start with provisioning but lack the features necessary for what is described as "day 2 management." ManageIQ was built from the ground up following design principles geared for day 2 management. It can do provisioning as well, but its holistic, comprehensive approach is what truly sets it apart.

Botvinnik has a host of new features, and these are just a sample:

OpenStack Infrastructure Management (Undercloud)

Infrastructure Provider (undercloud) in 2015

Inventory for Heat Stacks

Connect Cloud provider to Infra provider

Autoscale compute nodes via Automate

Infrastructure Host Events & Event processing

Handling of power states (paused, rebooting, waiting, etc.)

Tenant filtering based on security groups, floating IPs, and networks.

]]>We’re very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. For the “B” release, we selected Mikhail Botvinnik, a Soviet chess champion from the 1950’s. The “C” release cycle is named after Jose Raul Capablanca, a Cuban world chess champion from 1921-1927.

Cloud management is very quickly morphing into systems management, to the point where the difference between the two is increasingly indistinguishable. Everyone has a cloud, somewhere. Everyone has a virtualization platform. ManageIQ has had management capabilities for popular platforms of both for some time.

What’s new in the Botvinnik release, which marks the beginning of ManageIQ’s evolution from “Your gateway to the open cloud” to “Control all the things,” brings several important new features, including:

More and better integration with cloud orchestration frameworks, including CloudFormations and OpenStack Heat.

One of the key differentiators for ManageIQ is that it all starts with a comprehensive asset inventory and the relationships between them. Orchestration, automation, and the policy engine are built on that inventory base. First, know what is there, and then decide how to automate it. Other cloud management tools start with provisioning but lack the features necessary for what is described as “day 2 management.” ManageIQ was built from the ground up following design principles geared for day 2 management. It can do provisioning as well, but its holistic, comprehensive approach is what truly sets it apart.

Botvinnik has a host of new features, and these are just a sample:

OpenStack Infrastructure Management (Undercloud)

Infrastructure Provider (undercloud) in 2015

Inventory for Heat Stacks

Connect Cloud provider to Infra provider

Autoscale compute nodes via Automate

Infrastructure Host Events & Event processing

Handling of power states (paused, rebooting, waiting, etc.)

Tenant filtering based on security groups, floating IPs, and networks.

We’re quickly coming up on the official release of ManageIQ Botvinnik. If you’re curious about what are the most important additions to ManageIQ and how to use them, come to our online meetup next week where we’ll walk through the major changes and run through some demos to show them in action.

]]>http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/05/additions-to-planet-manageiq/feed/0Botvinnik RC3 is herehttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/05/botvinnik-rc3-is-here/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/05/botvinnik-rc3-is-here/#commentsThu, 07 May 2015 15:21:21 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/05/botvinnik-rc3-is-here/The next Botvinnik release candidate, RC3, is now ready for download. Either use the site’s download workflow or pick what you want from the list of available images. Report issues in this thread and link to the GitHub issue URL.

If this one proves ready, we’ll crank up the release machine for official GA.

]]>http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/05/botvinnik-rc3-is-here/feed/0Agenda for ManageIQ User Day at OpenStack Summithttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/agenda-for-manageiq-user-day-at-openstack-summit/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/agenda-for-manageiq-user-day-at-openstack-summit/#commentsThu, 30 Apr 2015 19:51:53 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/agenda-for-manageiq-user-day-at-openstack-summit/As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are having a day to ourselves on Wednesday, May 20 at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

]]>http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/agenda-for-manageiq-user-day-at-openstack-summit/feed/0ManageIQ Community Sprints – Now with Trellohttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-community-sprints-now-with-trello/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-community-sprints-now-with-trello/#commentsWed, 29 Apr 2015 20:06:49 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-community-sprints-now-with-trello/If you’ve been participating in our sprint reports, you’ve no doubt found them to be an excellent way to stay apprised of feature progress in ManageIQ. I’m happy to announce that our community activities are now part of the 3-week sprints and included in the sprint reports.

]]>http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-community-sprints-now-with-trello/feed/0ManageIQ at OpenStack Summithttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-at-openstack-summit/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-at-openstack-summit/#commentsTue, 28 Apr 2015 17:11:47 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-at-openstack-summit/I’m pleased to announce that the ManageIQ project will have a big showing at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are the activities we have on tap:

Monday, May 18: Birds of a feather – an hour-long extravaganza where we will talk about the latest and greatest in the ManageIQ community

Wednesday, May 20: ManageIQ Community Day – this will be a day-long workshop starting with introductory talks in the morning, a hands-on lab in the afternoon, and finishing up the day with a nice mixer

]]>http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/04/manageiq-at-openstack-summit/feed/0Podcast – All About the Jellyfish Cloud Brokerhttp://manageiq.org/blog/2015/03/podcast-all-about-the-jellyfish-cloud-broker/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/03/podcast-all-about-the-jellyfish-cloud-broker/#commentsTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:41:23 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2015/03/podcast-all-about-the-jellyfish-cloud-broker/I sat down with Chris Hample and Chris Kacerguis from Booz Allen Hamilton to discuss their newest release of the Jellyfish Cloud Broker, which is at version 2 as of this writing.

Now that I’ve had two gastro tests with negative results, I feel safe in saying that I don’t have any serious gastrointestinal diseases or cancer. I feel some combination of relief but also a tad of survivor’s guilt. In addition to my brother, I’ve had other friends and family succumb to gastric and colon cancers over the years.

It all seems like such a crap shoot – some of us “win” the genetic lottery of cancer mutations, and some of us survive with decent health – for now, at least. It begs the question, why do some of us stay in good health where others have the incredible bad luck, through no fault of their own, of getting terminal illness. In these past few months since James was diagnosed with gastric cancer, I have often wondered what I have done to deserve my (thus far) decent state of health. The reality is that I’ve done nothing – I don’t regularly exercise and I don’t pay much attention to what or how much I eat. It all feels grossly unfair.

I’ll never forget when John Goebel told me he had been diagnosed with Colon cancer. It blew my mind. Here was this 38-year-old who was the epitome of good health: ate right, exercised, and looked great. He looked 10 years younger than his age. It seemed like such a cruel joke that he would be the one to leave behind his family while many of us with poor lifestyle habits have the luxury of seeing our children grow up.

Then again, I could be diagnosed tomorrow with some terminal illness or die in a horrible accident, rendering this post entirely moot. If the last 6 months have taught me anything, it’s that these things can change rather rapidly.

]]>http://www.johnmark.org/blog/2015/02/survivors-guilt/feed/0Community Depot is Live – and in BETAhttp://manageiq.org/blog/2014/12/community-depot-is-live-and-in-beta/
http://manageiq.org/blog/2014/12/community-depot-is-live-and-in-beta/#commentsFri, 05 Dec 2014 22:13:54 +0000http://manageiq.org/blog/2014/12/community-depot-is-live-and-in-beta/We can now take the covers off of the ManageIQ Community Depot and show it to you live. Just understand it’s in beta and may (will) have some bugs. The Depot is where you can share, download and collaborate on extensions and other software built for ManageIQ.